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How long until people are making bathtub crystal meth with GM yeast?


While a talented lab might be able to make yeast produce ephedrine (since Ephedra sp. do that naturally - no idea how complex that is, though, I am not biochemist), I don't think there are any organisms that synthesize methamphetamine directly...





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